As the ongoing retrial of Salman Khan in the 2002 hit-and-run case reached a crucial stage, a city sessions court on Friday reserved its order till March 3 on an application made by the Prosecution seeking a direction to the Bollywood actor to produce his driving license to prove the charge that he was behind the wheels at the time of incident without valid papers.
After hearing arguments from both the sides in the case, sessions judge D W Deshpande reserved his ruling till Tuesday next on the Prosecution’s plea seeking the court’s direction on the production of his driving license by the actor.
While seeking a direction from the court to the accused actor for the production of his driving license, Special Public Prosecutor Pradeep Gharat reiterated that Salman did not possess driving license at the time of the much-discussed hit-and-run incident.
The records produced by the RTO in the trial court shows that Salman was issued the driving license bearing No 786 in august 2004, a fact that Gharat brought to the attention of the court.
The Prosecution’s case is that Salman—allegedly in a drunken state — had driven his Toyota land Cruiser recklessly on September 28,2002, killing a pavement dweller and injuring four others, who were asleep on the same pavement.
On his part, the actor has denied that he was behind the wheels at the time of incident. He has also disputed the records produced by the RTO in the trial court.
